Federico Fellini (January 20, 1920 - October 31, 1993) was a famous Italianfilm-maker and director. Fellini's films typically render the combine memory, dream, and fantasy. Among his best received films are those in which the an adolescent discovers sexuality.

Apart from making films he also wrote scripts for radio shows, for movies (mainly for Rossellini) and wrote comic gags for well known actors like Aldo Fabrizi[?]. Fellini also produced several drawings (mostly pencil on paper), often humoristic portraits. It is with these works that young Fellini encountered cinema: his first success was in drawing advertising pictures for movies.

During Fascism an Avanguardista, his first writings were for Alleanza Cinematografica Italiana (ACI), a production company of Vittorio Mussolini, son of Benito, who introduced him to Roberto Rossellini.

In 1944, when Fascism was over, he opened a shop in Rome in which he sold these drawings. The shop was named (in English) "The Funny Face Shop", and contained works from Fellini and De Seta, Verdini, Camerini, Scarpelli, Majorana, Guasta, Giobbe, Attalo, Migneco (all writers, directors or otherwise intellectuals working for Italian cinema). In the same year started his contribution to Rossellini's Roma Cittą Aperta[?], with Aldo Fabrizi[?].Fellini took also part in writing another of Rossellini's movies: Paisą. He wrote also for other directors as Alberto Lattuada[?], Pietro Germi[?] and Luigi Comencini[?].